Flooding in Uruguay has swamped roads and homes, forced thousands to evacuate and cut power and water service.

Grammy Award-winning singers Beyonce and Alicia Keys are filming a music video in a Rio de Janeiro slum.

In November and December, Don and Kathleen Hasenohrl of Pittsville took a cruise out of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Haiti's interior minister on Monday toured a Colombian town rebuilt after a huge 1999 tremor as his own country considered plans to reconstruct its wrecked capital city after last month's devastating earthquake.

AN alligator that killed an 11-year-old girl who was bathing in a creek was shot dead by searchers with the girl still in its jaws.

A colony of sea lions endemic to the Galapagos Islands have moved 1,500km away, a Peru-based organisation which monitors the aquatic mammals has said.

Beware crossing Chile's borders in possession of forbidden fruit. As passengers flying into the Santiago airport cannot fail to notice, the government has embarked on an aggressive campaign to tell travelers that it means business when it comes to protecting Chilean food exports.

South American leaders deeply divided by political differences may take a break from their usual recriminations on Tuesday when they meet to discuss the continent's response to the crisis in quake-shattered Haiti.

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sunday exchanged congratulatory messages with his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe Velez to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

Walking on a dusty field of cut rice that was once rainforest, researcher Flavio Wruck explains how farming, the Amazon's biggest killer, can be turned into its best defender.

Samba queen controversy Seven-year-old competing to be Rio's sexy samba queen at this year's Carnival is stirring up controversy.

Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, husband of President Cristina Fernandez and one of her top advisors, was hospitalized for emergency surgery on his carotid artery on Sunday, a government medical official said.

Close MASTERPIECE FEBRUARY 6, 2010 South American Sublimity Church's monumental 'Heart of the Andes' By BARRYMORE LAURENCE SCHERER Metropolitan Museum of Art New York For all their powerful visual drama, many of the iconic landscapes of the American painter Frederic Edwin Church are relatively small in size and were originally intended for private ...

After reinventing Bolivia's government to reflect the country's multi-ethnic, Indian majority, President Evo Morales is championing gender parity at the highest levels of government.

The Task status report was discussed briefly. Members felt that the Road Traffic Bill needed to have further periods of public consultation and debate given that it had been dormant for some time now.

The Chilean capital of Santiago has plenty of historic sights for the visitor. Photograph by: Radzfoto, via Flickr What's it like to live in a far-off place most of us see only on a vacation? Foreign Correspondence is an interview with someone who lives in a spot you may want to visit.

Revelers celebrate during the Ceu na Terra parade in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb.

Report of an Executive Council meeting held on 3 February 2010 at Government House at 10:00 am.

TWO missing US-made fighter jet engines, worth US$29 million and stolen from a Malaysian military airbase, have been traced to Uruguay, a report said on Saturday.

After reinventing Bolivia's government to reflect the country's multi-ethnic, Indian majority, President Evo Morales is championing gender parity at the highest levels of government.